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20th Sep 2014, 12:28 PM #1Golden Member
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3d printer x Milling machine
This is a clever hack of a milling machine
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ref=nav_search
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20th Sep 2014, 12:48 PM #2Most Valued Member
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That's a cool idea for a retrofit to a CNC machine.
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20th Sep 2014, 02:20 PM #3Diamond Member
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It's the way things will go eventually additive and subtractive machining on the one machine. DMG Mori Seki demoed a 5 axis machining center earlier this year that does some sort of laser metal deposition. here's a link to the youtube clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9IdZ2pI5dA . It really blew my mind, I tried to get my boss to get one but he said no.
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You said the computer came and gave you a demo of this, so by video I presume? Surely they didn't set up a machine?
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20th Sep 2014, 10:17 PM #7Diamond Member
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Yeah I was really puzzled there. Unless of course you worked for the CSIRO or similar and it was coming up to budget time and they knew you had a surplus to get rid of
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21st Sep 2014, 08:23 AM #9Philomath in training
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It's an interesting concept in a machine and could well be the first of many that appear - although I do have trouble working out what you would use it for. Normally these demos are set up to show a part that the machine does really well but other machines would have difficulty with or be much slower. Echoing my Hippo jaw comment, how many flared turbine parts does one company need (I think the video said just under 4 hours to built) - unless you were a turbine specialist.
Depending on the properties of the end result I could see it in a funded up racing out fit (F1 etc) or maybe a aerospace or similar manufacturer for lightweight complex parts. Be interesting to know whether they can do a variety of materials and how it handles undercuts (probably make it solid and then just machine out)
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Chicken or the egg perhaps Michael? Maybe we don't see the need for that type of part because guys like you do their jobs very well and realise that the "perfect" solution wouldn't be financially viable to machine. I think the reason we see this type if thing in F1 or aerospace, just for example, is that these financial constraints have been moved radically upward in order to achieve higher performance. But let's just say, hypothetically, that this machine could produce parts extremely rapidly and at very low cost, I'm quite sure engineers would be all over the shift in manufacturing technology and many parts would be produced that would look very different from today.
Meanwhile back in reality, even now, I'm not sure what types of metal that can spray, but I could see an immediate application in the medical field if it could produce in appropriate metals. I've had a couple of pieces of metal inserted in me, and since removed, the last because it never did fit me terribly well and was uncomfortable, but was the best they could do using off the shelf parts. How much better it would have been if they could take an x-ray, send it off to a specialist company and a few hours later be holding a custom made part to shove in the patient. I think we are inching ever closer to that not just being possible, as it would be possible now I'd think, but being the norm.
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